Building a Personal Learning Network

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions

-What's a PLN?

Typical Teacher Network

Who's in your PLN?

Starting a PLN & What My PLN Means to Me

Teaching with Soul

Examining Your PLN (For experienced Tweeters)

PLNs & 21st Century Skills

How can your PLN help with development of 21st Century Skills? (Yours and your students)
21st Century Skills Resources for Academy District 20

Exercise: Each group will search for "21st Century Learning" or "21st Century Skills" in one of the following PLN sites/tools to look for a great idea or resource. Twitter You Tube Teacher Tube Diigo Edutopia Classroom 2.0 Linked In *
Group 1 - Twitter Group 2 - You Tube & Teacher Tube Group 3 - Edutopia Group 4 - Linked In Group 5 - Diigo Group 6 - Laura	Share resources with whole class. What did you find out about the tool? How did you successfully search for information? The information there?

RSS Feeds - Google Reader

How I Built my PLN - Twitter

Building a PLN in Twitter on Prezi

My Twitter Wiki

Navigating in Twitter - TweetDeck

Following - how to follow
Followers
RT
@
DM
hashtags
lists
Tweetdeck column features

Time to Tweet

Assignment: Everyone search resources shared here today to find at least 10 things to Tweet about. Tweet the following 10 tweets with the hashtag #20inthe21st:

3 Retweets
3 Resources with >>personal note or description
3 Messages to someone else in this room using @
1 "Philosophy of Education" tweet

Who to Follow - How to Follow - Follow! (Now that you have some tweets posted!)

From Mentions
From Lists
From hashtags
From Edchats
Who to follow - Foller

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